cybergovernance DOI: 10.38023/986342e9-b89c-4bb0-93af-93fbb6fa3abb

Duty of Co-Operation as New Cybergovernance Concept

Rolf H. Weber

Category:

Articles

Field of law:

Internet-Governance

Collection:

Conference proceedings IRIS 2021

Citation: Rolf H. Weber, Duty of Co-Operation as New Cybergovernance Concept, in: Jusletter IT 25. Februar 2021

Cybergovernance attempts at protecting information and data as well as the related assets and infrastructure. By way of overcoming a strict national sovereignty approach and of developing globally acceptable principles for the Internet, new substantive concepts for behavioural norms need to be developed. A promising approach consists in the implementation of a broadly interpreted duty of co-operation between the States as a general legal standard. Such an approach appears to be suitable for contributing to a cosmopolitan understanding of common interests leading to an improved cybergovernance and a higher level of Internet integrity.

Table of contents

1. Foundations of Cybergovernance
2. Cyberspace Integrity and Stability as Underlying Objectives
3. Duty of Co-operation
- 3.1. Traces in Declarations and Court Practice
- 3.2. Nature and Characteristics
- 3.3. Fields of Application
4. Protection of Common Interests as Cosmopolitan Approach
- 4.1. From Co-existence to Co-operation
- 4.2. Move to Cosmopolitanism
5. Outlook
6. References

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